Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1915 — Obituary of Rev. W. T. Davenport. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Rev. W. T. Davenport.

The Rev. William T. Davenport, a superannuated Methodist minister of this city, died at his home Friday afternoon at two o’clock after a long period of declining health. He is survived by three sons, Ruel Davenport of this city, Clarence Davenport of Washington, Pa., and William Davenport, Jr., of Rensselaer, Ind. The funeral services were conducted Sunday at his late residence by the Rev. L. Robinson, and the burial followed in the city cemetery. William T. Davenport was born on April 16, 1840, in Labanon, Marion county, and at the age of twenty years he was ordained a minister in the Methodist church. The Rev. Devenport was an active minister in the Louisville conference for fiftyfour years. He preached his first sermon at the Little Mount church, in Larue county, in the summer after his ordination, and had charges in all parts of the conference until 1904 when his health broke down, while pastor at Duster, Breckinridge county. Since that time he spent his remaining days in Hodgenville and Elizabethtown. < . He was married in 18 66 to Mites Belle Brownfield, and on the year of the silver anniversary of their wedr ding his wife died. He was married the second time to Miss Minerva Hill. # The Rev. Davenport was at all times an earnest and faithful minister, and leaves many friends in all parts of the state to mourn his death. It is probable that during his long pastorate five thousand persons were converted. During his life he pointed with pride to the fact that while a resident of Larue county he lived for several years in the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born. —Elizabethtown, Ky., News.